And I scorn to fall back on the stock-in-trade of the poets,all their silly metaphors and similes and suchlike nonsense.

Her head was bowed nowher glorious, proud little head,and she sat silent, an abashed heap of fluffy frills and ruffles, a tiny bundle of vaporous ruchings and filmy tucks and suchlike vanities, in the green dusk of the summer-house.

He had very certainly never known anybody who in his opinion merited the torments of his orthodox Gehenna; so that in imagination he vaguely populated its blazing corridors with Nero and Judas and Caesar Borgia and Henry VIII, and Spanish Inquisitors and the aboriginal American Indiansexcepting of course his ancestress Pocahontasand with Benedict Arnold and all the "carpet-baggers" and suchlike other eminent practitioners of depravity.

I was much interested to read the British press upon the alleged proposal of the German Chancellor that we should give up (presumably to Germany) Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, and suchlike key possessions.

In short, seek first the kingdom of God and His justice with this money of yours, and see if all other things, profits and suchlike included, are not added unto you.'

Besides, he hath not been afraid to rail on you, my lord, who are now appointed to be his judge, calling you an ungodly villain, with many other suchlike vilifying terms, with which he hath bespattered most of the gentry of our town.

an' suchlike than they are in pickchers and paintin'.

The gents in Sour Creek don't stand for suchlike ways!"

" "I never said so!" "Girl," pronounced Riley solemnly, "ain't it a fact that you went around to a lot of parties and suchlike things with Quade?"

"We was talking about hosses and suchlike, which Sinclair talked uncommon slick.

But there were further delights to me in the days that came; for I had happiness in the way that she had pleasure of the Mystery of the Evening, and the Glamour of Night, and the Joy of Dawn, and all suchlike.

And much that was writ in the book was common knowledge, and set mostly to the count of fairy-tales and suchlike, even as we of this our age take not over-surely any belief in Myths of olden times.

The floor of it was littered with the knapsacks and water bottles of dead or captured men, with useless rifles broken at the stocks and bent in the barrels, and with suchlike riffle.

The drain upon the nations is exhausting, but it does not kill men so horribly, and our rulers do not feel it; for the people pay, and the concession-hunters, the contractors, the company directors, and suchlike people with whom our rulers chiefly associate, grow very fat.

" "I dunno as I'd prefer that to bird-scaring or suchlike," murmured John.

After that he rests for a fortnight and recuperates, and returnsto take up a will case turning upon the toy rabbits and suchlike trifles which entertained the declining years of a nonagenarian.

My motto is freedom to conscience, d'ye see, except just for Quakers, and Papists, andand I wouldn't stand Anne Hutchinsons and women testifying, and suchlike foolishness.

Especially such trades as minister to mere appetite or luxurybutchers, fishmongers, and cooks; perfumers, dancers, and suchlike.

I have already glanced at the possibility of a diabolical world manufacturing gramophone records for our bishops and statesmen and suchlike leaders of thought, but if we dismiss that as a merely elegant trope, I must confess I think it is the influence of Herbert Spencer.

They brought presents of poultry, jam, butter, and suchlike.

There will be things left, I suppose,clothes and books and suchlike.' 'Hardly anything, sir.

She had better sell these shares or those, if she could, for a certain price,and suchlike.

In civilian life they're mostly river pirates, Tong-fighters and suchlike professional cut-throats.

Plagues of ants and suchlike as God wills.

For example, 'Mr. Tylor intimates that all cases of supposed demoniacal possession are identical with hysteria, delirium, and mania, and suchlike bodily and mental derangements.'